Senior Enterprise Architect

Arke

8h•Remote

About The Position

Arke is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect with a strong understanding of technical architectures and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will bridge the gap between complex technical requirements and clear, persuasive dialogue, ensuring stakeholder alignment. As a consultancy, this role requires the ability to transition between requirements, initiate new challenges, and collaborate with multiple developer teams for clients. A proven track record of guiding clients through the design and implementation of enterprise architecture to meet their specific needs is essential. A work sample is required for this position.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Senior Enterprise Architect, Enterprise Architect, or equivalent senior architecture leadership role.
Significant breadth and depth of architecture experience across enterprise-scale digital, cloud, application, integration, and data ecosystems.
Growth mindset with the ability to receive feedback, adapt quickly, and continuously improve architecture and delivery practices.
Executive-level communication skills with the ability to instill client confidence, explain complex technical concepts clearly, and influence decision-making.
Exceptional interpersonal skills, including stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide architects, technical leads, developers, and delivery teams through complex solution decisions.
Excellent analytical and technical skills, with the ability to assess tradeoffs, identify risks, and recommend pragmatic solutions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear architecture documentation, technical narratives, and client-facing recommendations.
Excellent planning and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams, competing priorities, and architectural dependencies.
Ability to work effectively with distributed, outsourced, and in-house development teams.
Minimum of 10 years of enterprise-scale design and implementation experience in software development, with deep knowledge in at least two of the following technical disciplines: cloud computing, cloud-native architecture, application development, integration architecture, middleware, data architecture, or enterprise platforms.
Proven Azure or AWS expertise; proficiency in both is highly advantageous.
Strong familiarity with enterprise architecture patterns and principles, including Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, N-Tier Architecture, API-first design, and composable architecture.
Competency in enterprise architecture, middleware, integration, data flow, cloud, and system context diagramming.
Ability to audit, assess, and document existing architectures and ecosystems, identifying gaps, pain points, risks, technical debt, and opportunities for modernization.
Experience and understanding of modern API design patterns, API governance, authentication, authorization, versioning, and lifecycle management.
Able to define API specifications, preferably using OpenAPI/Swagger.
Proficiency with enterprise tools and patterns such as SQL, Service Bus/Message Queue, Caching, ESB, ETL, observability, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
Strong understanding of object-oriented principles, software design principles, and architecture quality attributes such as scalability, resiliency, security, maintainability, and performance.
Understanding of AI tools, models, and software development workflows, including how AI can accelerate architecture, documentation, analysis, solution design, and engineering delivery.

Nice To Haves

Preferred background in consulting, professional services, or other client-facing technology leadership roles.
Preferred experience contributing to open-source projects, public repositories, architecture accelerators, reusable frameworks, or internal engineering standards.
Experience in a Senior Enterprise Architect role at a digital agency, consulting firm, or technology organization.

Responsibilities

Partner with clients and executive stakeholders to make strategic technology decisions that directly impact business outcomes, platform direction, and long-term solution viability.
Define current-state, transition-state, and future-state enterprise architectures across complex digital, cloud, integration, and application ecosystems.
Own the integrity of technical designs, architectural decisions, and delivery patterns across enterprise-scale solutions.
Provide architectural leadership to development teams, ensuring technical execution aligns with approved architecture, delivery standards, and client objectives.
Lead estimation activities for complex initiatives, ensuring scope, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and delivery timelines are clearly understood and documented.
Guide backlog definition and prioritization by translating architectural decisions into actionable epics, features, user stories, and technical work items.
Facilitate client discussions on enterprise architecture best practices, including scalability, resiliency, security, maintainability, performance, and operational readiness.
Provide deep expertise across platforms, cloud architectures, integration patterns, design patterns, and enterprise solution practices.
Mentor architects, technical leads, and senior developers to strengthen architectural thinking, technical quality, and delivery effectiveness.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with client stakeholders, delivery teams, and internal leadership to ensure alignment, transparency, and smooth project progression.
Identify architectural risks, technical debt, delivery gaps, and escalation needs early, and provide clear recommendations to mitigate impact.
Contribute to architecture governance, standards, reusable patterns, and delivery practices that improve consistency and quality across engagements.